Tag: Soyuz
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OneWeb’s first full-up launch delayed to January
A series of Soyuz rocket launches from up to three locations — French Guiana, Kazakhstan and Russia — will deploy OneWeb’s satellites in orbit. Credit: OneWeb The first Soyuz launch from Kazakhstan carrying a full load of more than 30 Florida-built satellites for OneWeb’s broadband Internet network has slipped from December to mid-to-late January, OneWeb…
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Three spacefliers, including first Emirati in orbit, return to Earth from space station
Hazzaa Ali Almansoori of the United Arab Emirates is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and fellow spacefliers Nick Hague and Alexei Ovchinin landed in their Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Today’s landing of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan brought one of the shortest…
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Soyuz MS-12 return to Earth
Following a brief period as a nine-member crew onboard the International Space Station (ISS), three of its orbital outpost explorers returned home in the early hours of Thursday. Riding onboard Soyuz MS-12 was Alexey Ovchinin and Nick Hague, joined by short-stay spaceflight participant Hazzaa Ali Almansoori. While Hague and Ovchinin completed a 203-day mission, spanning…
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Trio’s arrival boosts space station’s population to nine, including first Emirati
A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) Three more spacefliers arrived at the International Space Station today in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, increasing the orbital outpost’s population from its usual six to a crowded nine. One of…
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Soyuz MS-14 – finally delivers Skybot humanoid robot to Station at second attempt
In an unusual situation, Roscosmos launched the Soyuz MS-14 crew vehicle without any humans aboard. The move is testing critical upgrades to the Soyuz MS series spacecraft, specifically the vehicle’s abort system interface with the upgraded Soyuz 2.1a rocket which will take over crew launch duties next year. While no humans were aboard, Soyuz MS-14…
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Russians ready unpiloted Soyuz capsule for launch
An unpiloted Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with a humanoid robot in the commander’s seat instead of a cosmonaut, is scheduled for liftoff late Wednesday (U.S. time) from Kazakhstan on a test flight to verify the spaceship’s compatibility with the new-generation Soyuz-2.1a rocket set to begin launching crews to the International Space Station next year. Flying…
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Robot-carrying capsule launches on test flight to space station
The Russian Skybot F-850 robot, seen here inside the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft after launch, will undergo experiments at the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV/Roscosmos With a robot rather than a cosmonaut in the commander’s seat, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft rocketed into orbit from Kazakhstan late Wednesday (U.S. time) en route to the International Space…
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Soyuz 2-1a launches Meridian 8 out of Plesetsk
Russia’s Soyuz rocket carried a Meridian communications satellite to orbit Tuesday morning. The rocket’s Fregat upper stage deployed its payload into an elliptical orbit about 140 minutes after liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, which took place at 08:56 Moscow Time (05:56 UTC). Meridian forms part of the Russian Government’s fleet of communications satellites, operating in…
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Russia launches military communications satellite
A Soyuz-2.1a booster lifts off Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Russian military Meridian communications satellite. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian military satellite rocketed into orbit Tuesday on top of a Soyuz launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to provide communications coverage over Russia’s polar regions. The Meridian relay satellite lifted off at 0556 GMT (1:56…
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Soyuz-FG on penultimate flight delivers three new crewmembers for ISS
For the second time this year, the Russian federal space agency – Roscosmos – launched three new crewmembers to the International Space Station on the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft. Liftoff occurred at 12:28:20 EDT (16:28:20 UTC) on Saturday, 20 July 2019 from Site No. 1/5 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The craft docked to the…